Flooring



S. HEDGES.

FLOORING.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20, 1918.

1,374,082. Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

WITNESSES l/Vl'E/V T01? 4f 5 fia/izad ffedya;

UNlTED STATES SAMUEL HEDGES, OF LOS ANGELES,

FLOORING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

Application filed May 20, 1918. Serial No. 285,552.

To all wiwm it may comer-n:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL HEDGli S, a citizen of the United States, and a resldent of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented cer-' tain new and useful Improvements n Flooring, of which the following is a spec fication.

My invention is an improvement in flooring, and has 'for its object to provide a veneer flooring having a tongue and groove joint, simple and easy to form, and slmple and easy to put together, and which shall, under all conditions, produce a smooth surface, and which will provide a great savlng 1n the first cost of the flooring.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is "atop plan view of a port on of flooring constructed in accordance Wlth the invention;

Fig. 2-is an end view;

Fig. 3 is an end view of another type of the invention.

In the present embodiment ofthe invention, the flooring boards 1 are provided atone side edge with a tongue 2 and at the other with a groove 3 for. receiving the tongue ofthe adjacent board. As shown, each of these tongues has its upper face 4: parallel with the opposite faces of the board, while its lower face 5 is inclined, converging toward the upper face toward the outer edge of thetongue.

The grooves 3 are similarly formed, that is, they are formed to fit the tongues, each groove having its upper side wall 6 parallel with the opposite faces of the board and its lower side wall 7 inclined, that is, divor ing from the upper face toward the edge of the board. It will be observed, also, that the tongues are of less width than the depth of the grooves, so that the boards may be tightly drawn together without the outer edge of the tongue contacting with the.

bottom of the groove.

.These flooring boards are of less thickness than the usual boards, being, in pract1ce,'n1ne- -sixteenths of an inch in thickness, while the same plane and a smooth finished surface will be presented.

. In Fig. 3 is shown another embodiment of the invention, wherein the board 8 has a tongue 9 and a groove 10, the tongue having converging side walls and the groove being shaped to fit. In this construction as well as that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, it will be noted that the under face of the tongue is inclined and converges toward the upper ace.

edges of the boards below the tongue and groove connection when the boards are assembled.

2. As a new manufacture, having a tongue at one side converging outwardly and a groove-at the opposite side converging inward-1y, the groove being of greater depth than the tongue, the lower wall of the groove terminating in a vertical plane nearer the inner vertical wall than the upper wall does the outer vertical faces of the groove-carrying side being perpendicular to the upper and lower faces of the board,

the upper and lower surfaces of the tongue termlnatlng in the same vertical plane at their junction with the edge of the board.

3. As a new article of manufacture, flooring boards each having at one. side a tongue converging outwardly, and at the opposite side a mating groove'converging inwardly and adapted to receive the tongue of an adjacent board, the said tongue having its 'opposite faces inclined, said grooves havin their opposite walls inclined and adapted to receive a tongue and produce a wedging action between a laid board and a board bein laid, said grooves being of greater dept than the tongues, the lower wall of the groove terminating in a vertical plane nearer the inner vertical wall than the upper wall and perpendicular to the upper and lower faces of the board, the upper and lower faces of the tongue terminating in the same vertical plane at their junction with the edge of the board.

SAMUEL HEDGES.

flooring boards I 

